I reviewed the glossary of the ITIL terminology
Alert:
(ITIL Service Operation) A notification that a threshold has been reached, something has changed, or a failure has occurred. Alerts are often created and managed by system management tools and are managed by the event management process.
Problems:
(ITIL Service Operation) A cause of one or more incidents. The cause is not usually known at the time a problem record is created, and the problem management process is responsible for further investigation.
Dynatrace AI gives you the root cause for Problem 🙂
Events:
(ITIL Service Operation) A change of state that has significance for the management of an IT service or other configuration item. The term is also used to mean an alert or notification created by any IT service, configuration item or monitoring tool. Events typically require IT operations personnel to take actions, and often lead to incidents being logged.
Incidents:
(ITIL Service Operation) An unplanned interruption to an IT service or reduction in the quality of an IT service. Failure of a configuration item that has not yet affected service is also an incident – for example, failure of one disk from a mirror set.
I feel that Dynatrace Aligns with most of them, but deviates with events. Events are any changes that has been detected by the oneagent, like maybe outlook crashed - that would be listed as an event. As well as trigger an alert as needed.
I feel that incidents are lumped into problems. The AI Engine detects and alerts on problems and correlates these for a root cause.
-Chad
